Frieze #245
230 x 300 mm, 190 pages
London
Eight times a year
First published 1991
Editor-in-chief: Andrew Durbin
Art director: Lorenz Klingebiel
Over 32 years, Frieze has developed from outsider indie to become the leading magazine for contemporary art and culture, and spawned art fairs in London, New York and Los Angeles. It provides international art coverage, criticism and analysis and promises (if not always achieving) jargon-free language.
The September 2024 issue revolves around the relationship between artists and writers: ‘what does great art demand from great writing, and how does great writing shape great art?’ It's an interplay that's also central to magazine-making and as such, you'll find a standout feature in an oral history of cult Middle Eastern art magazine Bidoun, published between 2004 to 2013. Its founders, editors and contributors reunite on page 78 to recount their intriguing journey producing a magazine which claims its ‘first subscriber was US Homeland Security.’
Elsewhere, a profile of Marlene Dumas, the ABCs of Ballroom culture, Glenn Ligon interviewed by Terrence Trouillot, and a trip to Michael Heizer's massive land art piece City, in the Nevada desert.